Seven Ontario youth are suing the Doug Ford government for “tearing up the province’s climate laws and violating their Charter rights to life, liberty, and security of the person,” Ecojustice announced yesterday.

Mathur et. al. v. Her Majesty in Right of Ontario challenges the government for adopting the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act in 2018. The bill “repealed what were considered to be relatively strong greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020, 2030, and 2050. The government then replaced these targets with a single, significantly weaker 2030 target,” the environmental law charity explains.